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HB 1318 Teaching Scholarship Loan Program.

Introduced by: Frank M. Ruff | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program. Expands the Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program to provide awards for any year of undergraduate study and alters the repayment term of teaching service in a critical shortage area from one year of service for each year of scholarship benefit to a term to be prescribed by Board of Education regulations. In addition, these scholarships will be available to full- and part-time students. The measure also includes some clarifying amendments.

Designed to increase the number and diversity of students pursuing teaching, to assist paraprofessionals in becoming fully licensed teachers, and to increase the diversity of persons pursuing careers in teaching, the Program shall consist of three components: (i) awards to students pursuing teaching degrees in critical teacher shortage areas (including subject matter areas, as well as various underserved geographic regions and high-poverty areas); (ii) awards to assist paraprofessionals in becoming fully licensed teachers; and (iii) awards to at-risk students.


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